On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:29:13PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes: > > > IIRC, the specific section that most people are refering to is: > > > > You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading > > or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. > > > > This means that you cannot publish them under DRM systems to restrict > > the possessors of the copies. It isn't supposed to refer to use of > > encryption or file access control on your own copy. > > > > I will talk with our lawyer and see if that sentence needs to be > > clarified. > > I believe modifying that section to read "copying of the copies > you make and distribute" would eliminate may objections. No, prohibiting DRM systems is unambiguously non-free under the DFSG. It just happens to be _silly_ right now. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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